Contents: Letter of transmittal. Testimony of Chief Kah-du-shan from Wrangel; Chief Johnson (Yash-noosh) from Juneau; Chief Koogh-see fom Hoonah; Chief Kah-ea-tchiss from Hoonah; Chief Shoo-we-Kah from Juneau; Chief Ah-na-tlash from Taku;...
193 second film clip, color/silent. Title frame has very little information. Film shows a group of men playing football outside in the snow. One player is injured and is carried off the field on a stretcher. They all appear to be very cold.
Title from caption. Photograph of a man at a sewing machine outside a log building. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is John Dummy doing some repairing before starting on a hunting trip. His wife, the nice 'Old Eliza,' and he did not...
Title from caption. Photograph of Sam the cat on the Rivenburg's roof in Rampart. Narrative in photo album reads: "Picture on the roof of the back entrance to our kitchen in Rampart. Sam lived on whole raw rabbits which I shot with a '22'...
Title from cataloger. Postcard of a young woman in a parka. She is standing in front of a wood pile stacked against a building. Verso of post card reads: "This is [Esther?] Barryman, a half-breed. The father is one of Kotzebue's...
Title from verso. Photograph of Arthur and Anna Cox and baby Sarah standing outside of a building. Verso reads: " This is Arthur and Anna Cox and little Sarah. Anna has her parka the fur inside so the baby is very snug and warm on her...
Postcard postmarked from Kokrines on Nov. 14, 1911 and addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on the verso is, "Dear Mother, your long looked for and very welcome letter of Sept....
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Pete Haase, the McKinley River, & Mt. McKinley; the end of a very successful expedition."
Clipping removed from a publication with the caption: Skagway is at the head of the Lynn Canal, and this picture gives some idea of the fall of the tide when one notes the length of the long docks extending out into the water. The mountain in the...
Title taken from caption.
Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title from accompanying notes. "Approaching Camp 2, which was not very far above the rest stop. Climbers in the distance are carrying loads beyond Camp 2." Snow, mountains, and several mountain climbers and a camp in the distance.
Title taken from caption. View of buildings from aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne. From May's journal, dated June 9th: "The Navy leases some of the Kanaga Trading Company's buildings here. It is stated that this company has invested...